Letter: Real cost of RAE cuts 1
Are departments that obtained a 5 rating the "real losers" of the 2001 research assessment exercise ("A cloud in blue skies", THES , February 8)? My department received a 1 in the 1992 RAE and a 2 in...
Are departments that obtained a 5 rating the "real losers" of the 2001 research assessment exercise ("A cloud in blue skies", THES , February 8)? My department received a 1 in the 1992 RAE and a 2 in...
My school entered the RAE in 1992 unprepared for and untutored in the strategies needed to create a strong research base. It gained a 2. Over the next four years we built an infrastructure and gained...
The bias in favour of large departments by the RAE and the funding council excessively penalises top-flight researchers in the smaller departments. This will eliminate competition and deprive the UK...
Roger Brown is right to highlight the way the RAE has weakened rather than strengthened the links between research and teaching ("One half of a double act", THES , February 15). A number of...
You are wrong to imply ("No power to halt BNP recruiters on campus", THES , February 15) that the British National Party is recruiting students at the University of Greenwich. We have no evidence...
I was astonished to read a letter criticising my cartoon for containing a "negative racial stereotype" and "disparaging indigenous art as crude and childlike". The joke was that an indigenous...
I was concerned to learn that the future of the Quality Assurance Agency's programme of overseas review visits might be in question. ("QAA role 'essential' overseas", THES , February 15). This work...
The sensationalising of lesbian sexuality that June Purvis talks of (Letters, THES, February 15) is not helped by Martin Pugh who accuses suffragette Annie Kenney of leading a promiscuous lesbian...
Derec Llwyd Morgan signs his letter defending the federal structure in Wales as "senior vice-chancellor, University of Wales, Cardiff" ( THES , January 25). What he means is, senior vice-chancellor...
British universities and staff are understandably concerned at the potential opening of the home market to foreign competition - possibly at the British taxpayer's expense - implicit in the General...
Politicians who think students should pay more to go to university support the argument by pointing to graduates' enhanced earning power. Nobody disagrees that college education brings advantages. So...
Can IQ be linked to parenting? Harriet Swain asks Peter Hobson about some unsettling ideas in his latest book. Peter Hobson is feeling self-conscious. You can tell. He flaps his arms around more when...
As US universities depend ever more on corporate largesse to fill their coffers, Stephen Phillips looks at the impact on funding of the Enron scandal. Enron professor of economics Mark Wohar shuns...
Four scientists select a favourite equation and explain its appeal: • E=mc² Peter Galison, Harvard University In May 1905, while working as a Swiss patent officer, the 26-year-old Albert Einstein...
Although scientific equations are not easily accessible, like painting and poetry, they possess a unique aesthetic value, argues Graham Farmelo. Westminster Abbey is not the sort of place you would...